Open Wound: Chechnya 1994-2003 [Hardcover]

Stanley Greene (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 2, 2004

The collapse of Russian communism in 1991 resounded to the shudder of an empire. Soviet imperialism and empiricism was dead and lands, nations, and peoples would henceforth be free from the tyranny of the communist diktat. But it also sounded the death knell of a small, impoverished, and forgotten land-locked state in the Caucasus which had the misfortune to be of geopolitical importance. Stanley Greene's photographs in Open Wound are so powerful as to make Chechnya our responsibility. He is unashamed to use guilt, with his painter's eye, to relate the deeds of men in Chechnya to our own conduct.

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About the Author

Stanley Greene was born in New York in 1949. Twenty years later he picked up a camera. By 1994 he had found himself in Chechnya, in the Caucasus, amid the systematic extermination of a people and their country. In Open Wound he has shown the story of the Chechen rebellion through his eyes, necessarily clouded by one man’s love for another. He lives in Paris.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 220 pages
• Publisher: Trolley (July 2, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1904563015
• ISBN-13: 978-1904563013
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 9.7 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,085,049 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "Most Disturbing Work in English", February 21, 2004

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"catfitzny" (New York, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Open Wound: Chechnya 1994-2003 (Hardcover)

Photojournalist Stanley Green's "Open Wound: Chechnya 1994-2003" has recently appeared, arguably the most disturbing work ever to be published in English about the two Chechen wars, with haunting text to accompany pictures that should become as indelible in the mind as the photos of Hiroshima or Vietnam.

From "Escaping the Chechen Quagmire" www.rferl.org/reports/ucs 16 December 2003

12 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful and Amazing pictures, January 28, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Open Wound: Chechnya 1994-2003 (Hardcover)

This book is a must for everyone who is interested in the War against Chechnya. Pictures in this book, though not graphic, are very powerful. What the Russians are trying to hide, Stanley Greene exposes it and with class. It is going to be a classic.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the Greatest Anti-War Books of All Time--incredible photography!, December 16, 2006

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Daniel O'Donnell (Upper Penninsula of Michigan) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Open Wound: Chechnya 1994-2003 (Hardcover)

A monumental achievement. OPEN WOUND by photojournalist Stanley Greene is perhaps the greatest visual argument against war to appear in book form since VIETNAM, INC. by Philip Jones Griffiths published in 1971. Courageous less for his obvious proximity to physical danger than for his direct engagement and emotional intimacy with his subjects. As visually stunning as it is politically critical. This is photojournalism of the highest standard.